Shilling

Pre-emption: I'm not a corporate whore.

However: I do feel like saying that my flights to and from the Bahamas on Song Airline (Delta's cheap-seats imitation of jetBlue) were probably the most bearable flights I've ever been on. That's because Song lets you watch movies that are actually good for $5 a pop. I saw The Incredibles going and Sideways coming. Quick verdicts: I was blown away by The Incredibles. And no, it's not Randian (thank God). Sideways was good, but I can sympathize with the anti-Sideways backlash. In real life, the bald, bearded, overweight, middle-aged, penurious struggling writer might end up with the witty, sweet, intelligent girl, but she's not going to look much like Virginia Madsen. Probably. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Marginally interesting anecdote: My dad and Bart Giamatti were near classmates and friends at Yale. My grandfather and Giamatti's father were very close friends at Yale. So I was in line to be homeboys with Paul Giamatti. But then my dad's first marriage collapsed and my Giamatti-befriending was invalidated by the postponement of my conception by about 15 years.

Paul Giamatti is a fine actor, though.